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Chapter 1: Slipping and Sliding to the

Starting line

Why and how to use reclaimed materials in the garden

Chapter 2: the goodS and Where to get themWhere to source reclaimed materials and how to see their beauty

Chapter 3: more than Your handS alone

The tools necessary to complete the projects

Chapter 4: Walk on thiS

Tips and designs or pathways

Chapter 5: making good neighborS

How to design and build encing

Chapter 6: arborS and other over-the-top

ideaSBuilding structures that provide shade

Chapter 7: Contain YourSelf

Design and create your own containers

Chapter 8: Sitting thiS one out

Functional seating in the garden

Chapter 9: a Candle againSt the night

Creative lighting projects

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The use o reclaimed materials in outdoor spaces is by no means a

new practice. Examples run throughout the history o landscaping

and gardening. A column borrowed rom a temple here, a ountain

lited rom some exotic palace over there, and violaits a clas-

sic. Today this is the most recognized orm o reuse in the garden,

because contemporary practice or the most part still ollows the

old ideas. To confrm this, one has only to look at all the designs

eatured in the contemporary press that incorporate pavilions, stat-

uary, and urnishings rom one exotic locale or another.

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Most gardeners rely on o-the-shel solutions when it comes to materials.

You can select a period or locale, then go out and buy everything you need

to t that look, all laid out or you in neat little rows. The advantage is that

the materials are uniorm, readily available, and easily specied. The disad-

vantage is that the materials uniormity, availability, and prebuilt specics

are likely to stop cold any real exploration o material possibilities that might

lie beyond the supply stores shelves.

a neW World of poSSibilitieS

Any gardener who has ever been in want o a fowerpot has crossed paths

with choice. There are so many pots to choose rom, so many shapes and

sizes. All those pretty things lined up on the nursery shelves, begging to be

taken home and ound useul. My advice is let them lie, let the dust settle on

them, or there is a whole world o other orms to be ound. To unlock that

world, the key is reuse o the materials that are local to you.What is a fowerpot but a hole with a bottom and sides? Through reuse

a great many things can t that description. Take, or example, an empty

toolbox. Is it not a hole with a bottom and sides? Will the dirt know the

dierence? But why use a toolbox? More to the point, why not? Toolboxes

are built to be sturdy; they are oten colorul and can be had or a pittance

at any garage sale.

As the toolbox example illustrates, when I say reuse, I am not reerring to

the worn-thin conventions o a shabbiness made chic by repetition, wheredistressed nish and rustication, either original or manuactured, swayed

the day. I am talking about the contemporary practice o reuse that embraces

exploration o materials and how those materials can and do aect the

spaces we build.

ABOVE LEFT A selection o plants and

toolboxes stand ready to assemble

into planters. RIGHTHoles have been

drilled in the bottom o the toolbox

or drainage.


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WhY reuSe?

Reused materials are generally not standard in size or in practice and there-

ore can be perceived as hard to use, dicult to speciy, and inecient.

So why bother to explore the world o contemporary reuse! You may nd

yoursel motivated by economic, aesthetic, or environmental reasonsor an

amalgam o the three.

ABOVE LEFTToolbox planters, flled

with planting mix, await plants.

RIGHT We set the tallest plants in the

toolboxes frst. BELOW Our planters

are complete.


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diSCover the neWeStgarden deSign trend

about the authorA pioneer in the art o using recycled materials in cutting-edge garden

design, mattheW leveSQueis the program director and master o

recycled art at the nonproft San Francisco company Building Resources

and the Red Shovel Glass Company. He has appeared on HGTV, the

Discovery Channel, the San Francisco CBS afliate, and other local

broadcasts.

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T IMBER PRESS 133 SW Second Ave, Ste 450 Portland, OR 97204 503-227-2878 fax: 503-227-3070 www.timberpress.com

Timber Press books are distributed in the gift and book trade by Workman Publishing.

Please see sales representative to order, or call 800-722-7202.

Discovering new uses or what you already

have or what you discover in the salvage yard

is truly living local. From making pathways out

o scrap wood and metal to creating garden

lights rom discarded indoor fxtures, Found

Hardscapeeatures dozens o garden projects

and inspirational ideas or taking advantage o

salvaged materials ound in the home, junkyard,

or thrit store.

found hardscapeIDEAS FOR REPURPOSING MATERIALS TO CREATE

CONTAINERS, PATHWAYS, LIGHTING, AND MORE

ISBN: 978-0-88192-997-3, $22.95

Paperback, 192 pp, full color throughout

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